A man driving in the Washington Park neighborhood crashed his car head-on into another vehicle this afternoon after he was shot, authorities said.

The man was driving in the 5900 block of South Martin Luther King Jr. Drive when he was shot in the shoulder, causing him to crash into another vehicle, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Joshua Purkiss.

Fire Department personnel took a 25-year-old man who had been shot in the back to John H. Stroger, Jr., Hospital of Cook County in critical condition, Fire Department spokesman Sean Flynn said.